Argyll Colliery
Location type
MineNames and dates
Argyll Colliery (1881-1929)Argyll Colliery (1950-1967)
Served by the Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway.
Served by the Glasgow Iron and Steel Co.
Description
The original colliery, owned by J and TL Galloway, closed around 1929 but a new colliery was sunk by the Glasgow Iron and Steel Company alongside in 1946, opened by 1950. Pithead baths opened in 1953. The new colliery used road transport as the railway closed in 1931.
The colliery and area was originally served by a canal from 1794 to 1856. It was later served by railway, opened from Kilkivan Pit to Campbeltown in 1887. It was extended west to Argyll Colliery in 1881 on closure of Kilkivan.
This line later became the Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway, opened to passengers in 1906 with extensions to stations at either end and halts along the route.
Tags
MineExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
| Nearby stations Trodigal Machrihanish Farm Machrihanish Drumlemble Colliery Road Lint Mill Moss Road Plantation Moy Park Campbeltown Ballantrae Turnberry Girvan (Old) Girvan Maidens | Ugadale Arms Hotel Lintmill Crossing Loop Limecraigs Junction Tourist/other Campbeltown Airport Albyrn Distillery Glennevis Distillery Ardlussa Distillery Glengyle Distillery Glenside Distillery Springside Distillery Lochead Distillery Highland Distillery Kinloch Distillery Benmore Distillery Campbeltown New Quay |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Books
 Campbeltown 1898: Argyllshire Sheet 257.08 (Old Ordnance Survey Maps of Argyllshire) |
